Last updated: October 13, 2026
Doses, measurements, meals, symptoms, notes, photos and reflections are stored on your device. No signup is required. Apple Health imports only weight, steps and sleep when you choose each category and allow access. Manual recording remains available.
With your explicit permission, Vera sends your submitted message and up to ten recent conversation messages to OpenAI through Velum's Cloudflare-hosted service. Separately enabling chapter sharing adds that chapter's reflection, encouragement preference and up to 40 recorded entries. Meal tools send your selected photo or meal description. Speech recognition uses your device's speech service and its system permission; the resulting meal text goes to the same AI service. The providers process connection information, including IP addresses, to deliver and protect their services.
OpenAI's published API policy says API content is not used for training by default. Standard abuse-monitoring retention can include content for up to 30 days, with legal and safety exceptions. Velum does not promise zero retention. Cloudflare may retain service/security metadata under its provider terms. Our proxy does not intentionally persist request bodies. Read provider information at https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/your-data and https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/. Turn OpenAI access off in Settings → Vera & your privacy to stop future requests. This does not recall already-sent content or erase provider logs. Contact [email protected] for access/deletion requests; legal or security retention may limit immediate deletion.
Off by default. Only after you agree in Settings → Optional analytics, purchase-screen actions, plan category and platform may be sent to PostHog. Events have event-scoped identifiers; no journal content, doses, symptoms, photos, messages, screen names or permission choices are sent. PostHog receives connection metadata. Turning this off stops new events and cancels pending requests, but cannot recall received events. No historical queue is replayed. Automatic crash reporting is disabled. Provider policy: https://posthog.com/privacy. Contact us for privacy/deletion requests.
Apple and RevenueCat process purchases, store transaction/entitlement information and an app-specific identifier to provide subscription access and restoration. Purchase records are not your journal. Their transaction and legal retention policies apply. Restoring purchases does not restore journal entries.
Velum does not provide an iCloud backup or recovery service. You can export chapter summaries and PDF reports, and import weight records from CSV. Exports contain personal health information: review the content and choose the recipient yourself. Reports are readable copies, not restorable app backups. Keep photos separately before deleting the app.
Keep using the manual journal without Health, AI or analytics permission. Export or delete local records in Settings. Local deletion does not cancel subscriptions, recall shared exports or erase provider records. Health access can be revoked in Apple Health. We do not sell health data or use it for advertising. Velum is not a medical advice service.
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